Thursday, Aug 17 - In 'The Meaning of Michelle,' author Veronica Chambers solicited, collected and edited essays by a variety of authors offering varied perspectives on Michelle Obama and her time in the White House.
Tuesday, Aug 15 - SOME OLD BLACK MAN acknowledges the political past in a unique way, but never waivers from being a deeply moving, personal tale of father-son reconciliation. There should be more new plays as fine as this.
Sunday, Aug 13 - “As much as all art struggles in public education, there is an amazing program at Monument Mountain Regional High School.” -- Jackson Teeley, whose musical “What We Were” will be work-shopped this coming Friday at The Barn at the Village Inn
Saturday, Aug 12 - This work is a celebration of the joys, the community, and the integrity of Ms. Brown’s girlhood, gazing back from her adult perspective. Surely, it is a gift to all of us!
Friday, Aug 11 - little, tiny hands balled into fists -- a pair of pygmy pugilists!
Thursday, Aug 10 - This weekend Camille A. Brown and Dancers take to the stage at the Ted Shawn Theatre to present 'BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play,' a piece whose introspective approach to cultural themes through visceral movement and sociopolitical dialogues will not disappoint.
Wednesday, Aug 9 - The program for the Sinfonia concerts will include Mozart’s Overture to 'The Magic Flute,' Khachaturian’s 'Masquerade' Suite, Schubert’s Symphony No. 3 and Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto.
Tuesday, Aug 8 - 'Some Old Black Man' is, on one level, about the black experience. But the essential concept is universal, one for which any adult who has had to care for an aging parent can easily summon buckets of empathy.
Tuesday, Aug 8 - This is wonderful American musical theater brought up to date and up to new levels of excellence by a supremely talented team.
Tuesday, Aug 8 - Despite Sharon Playhouse’s ambition to do something different with a classic musical, it fails to dramatize what’s at the core of Meredith Willson’s text – a universal tale of fulfilling a dream.
Sunday, Aug 6 - Find a ticket somewhere and see one of the great American playwright's finest works acted by a company of players who are defining her work for us.
Saturday, Aug 5 - Most of us take a glass of water or a good long shower for granted. I personally learned so much from this book that I now feel guilty to throw unused water down the drain.
Saturday, Aug 5 - 'Lincoln Speaks' will feature readings by actors including two-time Tony Award nominee Jayne Atkinson, Michel Gill, Shakespeare & Company founding artistic director Tina Packer, Shakespeare & Company director of training Dennis Krausnick and Chris Tucci, who will recite the 16th president’s least- and best-known private and public words about love, life and the country he worked to unite.
Saturday, Aug 5 - Laura Griffith doesn’t sound like Julie Andrews. She sounds like a person singing this material exactly as it was meant to be sung: with perfect tone, perfect diction, perfect intonation, perfect phrasing, perfect everything.
Friday, Aug 4 - I encourage you to be adventurous and give the many performances coming up this season, by artists unfamiliar to you, a shot. Please take a chance. You might be surprised.
Friday, Aug 4 - Joining CBS journalist and moderator David Schoenbrun on Aug. 28, 1963, were James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Sydney Poitier, Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston and Joseph Manckiewicz, all of whom were in Washington for the civil rights march.